a disturbance in time which can bring people and things from different times into the same timeline; cf. timequake n., time-slip n.
Chiefly popularized by Gordon Dickson’s 1977 novel Time Storm.
Your spaceship either by accident or design caught in the eddying current in the resulting time storm—
Suddenly he remembered his passenger, remembered her apprehension about time storms.
He gave us the closest thing to a normal meal that I’d eaten…since the time storm first hit Earth.
The time storm shifted and that resettlement was enough to rouse Chloe, attuned as she was to the distortion phenomenon.
When ultimately they decide to become involved, the time storm that conveyed them back into history reappears and prevents the timelines from becoming corrupted.
antedating 1942
A.E. van Vogt, 'Recruiting Station'
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